Eleventh Plague Book Report

The Eleventh Plague is a story about a boy name Stephen Quinn who was born after a big war with China. During the war, China released a plague called P11 which spread across the U.S. and wiped out two-thirds of the population. This time was called “The Collapse”. Another main character was Jenny, who helped Stephen. Jenny was introduced in the middle of the story as a troubled girl who always got into trouble. When Stephen met her at first they hated each other, but overtime they learned how to get along. Jenny and Stephen have to face many problems in the story together. There were many things leading up to the climax in the story. It started when Stephen and his dad take refuge in a plane. While there, slavers go in to take refuge from

Norman F. Cantor, a well known author who is a native of Canada. Majority of Cantor’s papers have to deal with the medieval period.

Viruses, Plagues, and History, written by Michael Oldstone, is an insightful and highly educational book that details the history of, that’s right, viruses and plagues. Through typically dry, yet engaging prose, Oldstone recounts what seems like all of it while simultaneously bringing to light the contributions of those brave scientists who asked themselves, “why.” He focuses his attention on some of the most notable viruses such as smallpox, yellow fever, measles, polio, and later he focuses on more contemporary battles against disease.

Eleventh Plague is a fiction novel by Jeff Hirsch about Stephen, his father, Jenny, Jackson and Settlers Landing. When disaster causes America to be a desolate place, Stephen and his dad are forced to find a way to survive. The book opens with the burying of Stephen’s grandfather, which has significance has his grandpa’s voice and advice run through his mind. Stephen’s dad falls into a river and falls unconscious, suffers skull damage, several broken ribs and other fatal injuries. Then Stephen sets up camp. When other people come near, Stephen is very protective of his father. The group invites him to come with them to a place called Settlers Landing, which Stephen agrees to but he is suspicious towards the

Life today is far different from what it was like in the seventeenth century. The lives of women during that time majorly differs from the way they essentially live today. The power of the church in the seventeenth century completely contrasts the powers of the church in modern times. There is a total distinction between that time period and that of the present. Authors sometimes fail to properly project the life of those who lived in the seventeenth century properly. I am looking into Year of Wonders: A Novel of the Plague by Geraldine Brooks to see if it is written to fit this time period.

The Plague or ¨Black Death¨ was a virus that spread across Europe killing about 60% of the population. The plague's origin was at the time unknown and this brought about many questions. At this time, people did not have basic necessities such as proper hygiene and medicine. Therefore there was fear, superstitions as well as conspiracy, and there were also some who realized that they could gain from the deaths of those around them.

The book When Plague Strikes, is about 3 deadly diseases. It 's about the Black Death, Smallpox, and AIDS. Each of these diseases can cause a serious outrage of death. The book also tells about how doctors try to come up with treatments, medicines, and antibiotics to try and cure these diseases. All these diseases got the best out of everyone. Some people reacted differently than others with these diseases. All the diseases came in play in A. D. 1347, when the Black Death broke out for the first time in what’s today is know. As southern Ukraine.

Stephen’s Journey in The Eleventh Plague Doing the right thing is a given in society. But in The Eleventh Plague society is broken and selfish and it presents this world through the eyes of Stephen. The novel The Eleventh Plague showcases Stephen Quinn’s journey from a self preserving follower to the leader. The Eleventh Plague is set in a post-apocalyptic wasteland where government is gone and selfishness is overruling.

D1 - “The 1300s Bubonic Plague epidemic changed the path of world history”: agree/disagree, explain, then argue.

Let’s begin, in the year 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean and landed in america. That was the start of The Great Plague, see Columbus was from Italy and sailed with and english crew, so their immune systems were built to resist dangerous diseases, but just because it didn’t affect them doesn’t mean that it wasn’t there, so when they landed in ‘India’ and he saw the ‘Indians’, he passed on the still living plague on to them, and since they never encountered the plague they weren't built to resist it so they began to pass the plague on to other Natives and soon most of the population had the disease.

The American Plague, Molly Caldwell Crosby’s nonfiction novel, accounts the journey of yellow fever from an African virus to the remarkably deadly epidemic that shaped American history in an often overlooked way. Crosby’s novel aims to give insight to the historical impact of yellow fever in the Americas, especially the United States. The novel guides through the history of the titular “American Plague”, yellow fever, in three main parts: its height epidemic in the United States, specifically in Memphis, the Commission to find the cause and vaccine for it, in Cuba, and the effects and presence the epidemic has in the present.

Bubonic plague is an infectious disease that is spread by the bacteria Yersinia pestis. These bacteria remain in a dormant state primarily in a rat flea’s foregut. Once the flea has bitten a victim it regurgitates the contents in its foregut into the bite location. Once the bacterium has entered into a mammal’s warm body it begins to reproduce and spread throughout the mammal’s body. The reproduction of this bacterium creates large painful swollen lymph nodes which are called buboes. Once these buboes get large enough they begin to ooze infected body fluid so that any contact between an infected person and a healthy person will facilitate the spread of this disease. (The Mayo Clinic Staff, 2012)

A Journal of the Plague Year is a first person account of what it was like living through the times of the plague. It recollects stories and other accounts of plague times heard by and collected by the Defoe from other involved individuals. Explains many aspects before, during, and after the plague of their ways of life and culture. Tells of tales of survivors of the plague but mostly off different tales of deaths and how they died in many outrageous and tragic ways of people killing their families, themselves, or masses of people. The whole journal is filled with collections of stories, but also with charts showing the deaths in different parishes and how they change as the plague raged on. In the end, it tells how life went back to normal for London and Defoe and his family.

There is a certin unsureness in the circulation and communication of information in A Journal of the Plague Year by Daniel Defoe. This instability of the language in this proto-novel is caused by the author citing two sides to every point or statement he makes causing contradictions. On top of this Defoe repeats the same points throughout the entire text. This uncertainty helps to make the reader believe the writing is an actual journal as opposed to an edited, actual non-fiction.

Time is only running out, and it is one of the most vital and overlooked qualities of life. Albert Camus highlights the theme of time in his 1947 novel, The Plague. Through the use of allegory and point of view, Camus substantiates that when people are not aware of time and its advancing, they are wasting the precious and limited time of their lives. He constantly establishes that the amount of consciousness obtained by a person is the difference between spending time wisely and foolishly.